ethical conflicts are recognized as critical aspects in assessing competence in clinical communication. moreover, pediatrics residents may face more problems, compared to other disciplines; due to the specific characteristics of the age group receiving services as well as the presence of their families. this study has been conducted with the aim of determining the attitude and perspective of pe...

OBJECTIVE Pressures on academic faculty to perform beyond their role as educators has stimulated interest in complementary approaches in resident medical education. While fellows are often believed to detract from resident learning and experience, we describe our preliminary investigations utilizing clinical fellows as a positive force in pediatric resident education. Our objectives were to imp...

Training of Pediatric residents is a dynamic process which should be changed as the nature and epidemiology of pediatric diseases change. We aimed to determine the educational needs of Pediatric residents. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review after choosing appropriate keywords and their combinations,, an extensive search was done in databases of Medline, EMBASE, ProQuest and Ovid, ...

1 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 2 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center, Mercer School of Medicine, Savanah, Georgia...

BACKGROUND The enhancement of resident research education has been proposed to increase the number of academic anesthesiologists with the skills and knowledge to conduct meaningful research. Program directors (PDs) of the U.S. anesthesiology residency programs were surveyed to evaluate the status of research education during residency training and to test the hypothesis that structured programs...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES To compare resident workload from Emergency Department (ED) studies before and after the implementation of a required 1-hour report turnaround time (TAT) and to assess resident and faculty perception of TAT on resident education. MATERIALS AND METHODS Resident study volume will be compared for 3 years before and 1 year after the implementation of a required 1-hour TAT...

Medical resident education in the United States has been a matter of national priority for decades, exemplified initially through the Liaison Committee for Graduate Medical Education and then superseded by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. A recent Special Report in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, has described resident educational programs to date as presc...